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Manchester: The Hidden History by Mike Nevell 9780752447049
RRP: $39.00$29.78In the first book to deal with the history of Manchester from its Roman foundations to the era of the Industrial revolution, Dr Michael Nevell uses the results of nearly ten years of archaeological excavation to illuminate the fascinating changes that... -
The Cimbrian War 113-101 BC: The Rise of Caius Marius Nic Fields 9781472854919
RRP: $33.13$23.95A gripping illustrated narrative of the Cimbrian (or Cimbric) War, in which the armies of the Roman Republic finally defeated the Germanic tribes of the Cimbri, Teutons, Ambrons and Tigurini. Rome's victory in the Cimbrian War was born of a number of... -
Queen Victoria's Daughters-in-Law John Van der Kiste 9781399001458
RRP: $48.75$34.36Of Queen Victoria's four sons, the eldest married a Danish princess, one a Russian Grand Duchess, and the other two princesses of German royal houses. The first to join the family of the Grandmama of Europe' was Alexandra, eldest daughter of the prince... -
Secret Newcastle by Ken Hutchinson
RRP: $31.18$21.16Situated on the north bank of the River Tyne, at the lowest bridging point, Newcastle is generally regarded as the capital of the north-eastern region of the United Kingdom. Initially a Roman settlement, Pons Aellius, the city grew to become an important... -
Gangsterland: A Tour Through the Dark Heart of Jazz-Age New York City by David Pietrusza 9781635769890
RRP: $35.08$23.99“David Pietrusza’s tour of the bars and nightclubs, the floating craps games and the bucket shops, the whorehouses and courtrooms and gambling dens brings the era’s underworld into vivid light. And you can tell that Pietrusza had a blast writing it!” ... -
'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?': A Confrontation in the Desert by Spike Milligan
RRP: $19.48$15.13VOLUME TWO OF SPIKE MILLIGAN'S LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A OUTRAGEOUS, HILARIOUS WW2 MEMOIRS'Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics, throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes' Daily Mail'Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar' Sunday Times______________'Keep talking, Milligan... -
May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth: Letters of the Lost Franklin Arctic Expedition by Russell A. Potter
RRP: $76.05$67.31May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth is a privileged glimpse into the private correspondence of the officers and sailors who set out in May 1845 on the Erebus and Terror for Sir John Franklin's fateful expedition to the Arctic.The letters of the crew and... -
The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter Godwin Woodson 9781680920680
$11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781680920680Author Carter Godwin WoodsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint 12th Media ServicesPublisher 12th Media ServicesWeight(grams)... -
The Red Line: The Gripping Story of the RAF's Bloodiest Raid on Hitler's Germany by John Nichol 9780007486854
RRP: $21.43$15.58From best-selling author of Tail-End Charlie and Tornado Down comes this powerful and deeply moving account of Bomber Command's 1944 Nuremberg Raid - the RAF's bloodiest night of the Second World War More men from Royal Air Force Bomber... -
The Slump: Britain in the Great Depression by John Stevenson 9781408230107
$69.17'One of the most relentlessly brilliant studies of twentieth-century Britain ... these young historians have found a marvellous theme and stuck to it. Theirs is the glory!' Professor Arthur Marwick, History The 1930s - remembered as the decade of dole... -
The Indian Mutiny Julian Spilsbury 9780753824023
RRP: $21.43$14.84An epic true story of treachery, revenge and courageThe Indian Mutiny is a real page-turner, an epic story with surprising modern parallels. Fomer army officer-turned-TV scriptwriter, Julian Spilsbury is the ideal author to take us back to the desperate... -
The Eighty Dollar Champion by Elizabeth Letts
RRP: $25.33$16.97Harry de Leyer first saw the horse he would name Snowman on a truck bound for the slaughterhouse. The recent Dutch immigrant recognized the spark in the eye of the beaten-up nag and bought him for eighty dollars. On Harry's modest farm on Long Island, he... -
The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny Ian Davidson 9781846685415
RRP: $23.38$16.63The fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 has become the commemorative symbol of the French Revolution. But this violent and random act was unrepresentative of the real work of the early revolution, which was taking place ten miles west of Paris, in... -
The Great Mutiny: India 1857 by Christopher Hibbert
RRP: $35.08$25.25'By far the best single-volume description of the mutiny yet written' - Economist A beautifully written and meticulously researched narrative history of the great Indian uprising of 1857 by one of our most acclaimed living historians. First published in... -
Hooghly: The Global History of a River by Robert Ivermee 9781911723349
RRP: $33.13$29.85The Hooghly, a distributary of the Ganges flowing south to the Bay of Bengal, is now little known outside of India. Yet for centuries it was a river of truly global significance, attracting merchants, missionaries, mercenaries, statesmen, labourers and... -
The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital by Dan Cruickshank
RRP: $33.13$23.95Georgian London evokes images of elegant buildings and fine art, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife, houses of ill repute widespread, and many tens of thousands of people dependent in some way or other on the wages of sin. The sex... -
The Indus Civilization: A Contemporary Perspective by Gregory L. Possehl 9780759101722
RRP: $91.65$80.48The Indus Civilization of India and Pakistan was contemporary with, and equally complex as the better-known cultures of Mesopotamia, Egypt and China. The dean of North American Indus scholars, Gregory Possehl, attempts here to marshal the state of... -
Hitler's Greatest Defeat: The German Collapse, 1944 Paul Adair 9781804361542
RRP: $21.43$14.06How the Nazis lost the war1944 was a year of trial for the German Army. While the Allies were preparing to invade the Third Reich from the west, Stalin was set on a massive offensive to liberate the last remaining areas of Soviet territory still held by... -
Sabre Squadron by Cameron Spence
RRP: $17.53$12.77With the outbreak of Gulf War hostilities a unit from 22 SAS slipped quietly over the border and into the enemy's backyard. It would be six weeks before any of the patrol again reached safety.Sabre Squadron recounts in graphic detail their scud-busting... -
German Field Artillery of World War II by Steven J. Zaloga 9781472853974
RRP: $25.33$17.92An illustrated study of the big guns of Hitler's army - the Wehrmacht's field artillery, its capabilities and its role in German fighting units of World War II. Often overshadowed in military history by the tanks and aircraft of Blitzkrieg,... -
Anna, Duchess of Cleves: The King's 'Beloved Sister' by Heather R. Darsie 9781398103269
RRP: $21.43$14.55Anna was the 'last woman standing' of Henry VIII's wives - and the only one buried in Westminster Abbey. How did she manage it? Anna, Duchess of Cleves: The King's 'Beloved Sister' looks at Anna from a new perspective, as a woman from the Holy Roman... -
Contrasts and Connections Pupil's Book Colin Shephard 9780719549380
$62.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780719549380Author Colin ShephardFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Hodder MurrayPublisher Hodder EducationWeight(grams) 580gDimensions(mm) 274mm * 194mm... -
The Eclogues by Virgil 9780140444193
RRP: $19.48$14.27Haunting and enigmatic, Virgil's Eclogues combined a Greek literary form with scenes from contemporary Roman life to create a work that inspired a whole European tradition of pastoral poetry. For despite their rustic setting and the beauty of their... -
Magna Carta by David Carpenter
RRP: $25.33$18.21'David Carpenter deserves to replace Sir James Holt as the standard authority, and an unfailingly readable one too.' Ferdinand Mount, TLS 'An invaluable new commentary' Jill Leopore, New Yorker With a new commentary by David Carpenter"No free man shall... -
Gypsies of Britain by Janet Keet-Black
RRP: $15.58$12.56Gypsies have been a part of the British and European social fabric for centuries - and have faced prejudice and oppression for nearly as long, since at least the time of Henry VIII. Theirs is a peripatetic existence, dwelling in tents and in caravans and... -
The Rise And Fall of Athens by Plutarch 9780140449051
RRP: $33.13$23.95Plutarch traces the fortunes of Athens through nine lives - from Theseus, its founder, to Lysander, its Spartan conqueror - in this seminal workWhat makes a leader? For Plutarch the answer lay not in great victories, but in moral strengths. In these nine... -
Contesting the French Revolution Paul R. Hanson (Butler University, USA) 9781405160841
RRP: $58.40$51.50Contesting the French Revolution provides an insightful overview of one of history's most significant events, as well as examining the most significant historiographical debates about this period. Explores the causes, events, and consequences of the... -
Stuffed: A History of Good Food and Hard Times in Britain by Pen Vogler 9781838955748
RRP: $42.90$29.91'Extraordinary' Chris van Tulleken'Fascinating' Felicity Cloake'Irresistible' Polly RussellIn times of plenty, we stuff ourselves. When the food runs out, we're stuffed too. How have people in the British Isles shared the riches from our fields,... -
The Phoney Victory: The World War II Illusion by Peter Hitchens
RRP: $27.28$21.53Was World War II really the `Good War'? In the years since the declaration of peace in 1945 many myths have sprung up around the conflict in the victorious nations. In this book, Peter Hitchens deconstructs the many fables which have become associated... -
Leadership in War: Lessons from Those Who Made History by Andrew Roberts
RRP: $21.43$15.58'Wonderful ... among military historians, Roberts is Britain's crown gem' Wall Street Journal Taking us from the French Revolution to the Cold War and the Falklands, celebrated historian Andrew Roberts presents us with a bracingly honest and insightful... -
The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau
RRP: $48.65$39.572021 Cundill History Prize FinalistA Financial Times Best Book of the YearA Spectator Best Book of the YearA Five Books Best Book of the Year"Outstanding, original, and revolutionary. Favereau subjects the Mongols to a much-needed re-evaluation, showing... -
Hodder GCSE History for Edexcel: Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, c1060-88 Esther Arnott 9781471861758
$44.89Exam Board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: June 2018Endorsed for EdexcelEnable students to achieve their full potential while ensuring pace, enjoyment and motivation with this popular series from the... -
The Power of Art: A World History in Fifteen Cities by Caroline Campbell 9780349128481
RRP: $58.50$33.66To read most histories of art, you might be forgiven for supposing that great artists are superhuman, and the knowledge of different movements, periods and styles is essential to truly appreciate art.It's time to look at art in a new way.THE POWER OF ART... -
Color Your Own Book of Kells by Marty Noble 9780486418650
RRP: $7.78$5.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486418650Author Marty NobleFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Dover Children'sPublisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 287gDimensions(mm) 125mm *... -
The Final Curtsey: A Royal Memoir by the Queen's Cousin Margaret Rhodes 9781780270852
RRP: $19.48$13.26This is the intimate and revealing autobiography of the late Margaret Rhodes, the first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and the niece of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Margaret was born into the Scottish aristocracy, into a now almost vanished world of... -
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve by Ian Morris
RRP: $39.00$31.45Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on... -
Sand, Planes and Submarines: How Leighton Buzzard shortened the First World War by Paul Brown 9780750983709
RRP: $35.08$26.99Sand, Planes and Submarines is an unlikely title for a book about the role two small towns far from the sea played in the First World War. Yet this extraordinary account tells how Leighton Buzzard and Linslade provided the means to shorten the war... -
Inherit the Truth 1939-1945: The Documented Experiences of a Survivor of Auschwitz and Belsen by Anita Lasker-Wallfisch 9781900357012
RRP: $29.23$19.62This is the story of the destruction of a talented Jewish family, and of the survival against all the odds of two young sisters. It is one of the most moving stories to emerge from the Second World War. Anita and her elder sister Renate defied death at... -
Germany 1918-1945: A depth study Greg Lacey 9780719570599
$59.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780719570599Author Greg LaceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Hodder MurrayPublisher Hodder EducationWeight(grams) 460gDimensions(mm) 274mm * 212mm *... -
Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants: Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans by Garrett Ryan
RRP: $33.13$25.23Why didn't the ancient Greeks or Romans wear pants? How did they shave? How likely were they to drink fine wine, use birth control, or survive surgery? In a series of short and humorous essays, Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants explores...